...this is a great tune! I heard "Last Rights" from Ft. Lauderdale do it at the Florida Folk Festival last spring...the melody reminds me of something in the dim realms of my memory...a Kingston Trio tune of another name mayhaps?

You may be thinking of a public service commercial for the Boy Scouts that played on TV a couple of decades back. It used "Follow The Drinking Gourd" as the melody, with a chorus of "Follow the rugged road."